business as usual

idiom

—used to say that something is working or continuing in the normal or usual way

Much of the town lost electricity in the storm, but for people with generators it was business as usual.

As the election nears, both political parties continue to blame each other for all the city's problems. In other words, it's business as usual.

Examples of business as usual in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This past week, fashion designers converged in the city for Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2025 menswear collections — but nothing was business as usual. —Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 25 June 2024

Breaking his silence on the spreading protests, Biden sternly said students are free to express themselves but must not take over college buildings or disrupt business as usual on campus. —Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024

While it’s mostly been business as usual on late night, Stewart went out on a limb to talk about it. —Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024

For years, policymakers and experts in Europe and the United States failed to listen to Ukrainian warnings that both diplomacy and business as usual with Russia were no longer possible. —Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023